Everything evolves when technology evolves, especially food. New technology meant new ways on doing things and these new things are supposed to increase efficiency of the way people lived, in this case, the way people ate. With the evolution of the ship, new foods are introduced to different countries faster and those new foods would be cultivated and propagated all over that country. Potatoes did not originate in Ireland, as people usually think they do, but rather they originated from the Incan Empire. The Spanish had brought the potatoes back to Europe, after of course they slaughtered the whole civilization. (source)

Then during the industrialization age, around early the 1800’s, scientists had begun to experiment on how could food be more efficiently preserved for one main use: to feed their soldiers during war. It was inventor Nicolas Appert who had invented bottling to answer the call of the French military on presenting new ways on how to preserve food. Appert’s discovery lead to canning, which lead to pasteurization.(source)

After the Cold War, powerful countries like the United States invested in the continuous search on the most efficient preservation of food. Their studies were based on the food that were sent to military troops that needed to last long due to the unpredictability of war. Thus, freeze drying, sodium bezonate, artificial sweeteners, and etc were invented and quickly entered our households.(source)

Food now today, to most of us, needs to be quick. We live in a world where everything is instant. We want food fast and we want it now. Technology has created packaged food that creates a simulation of eating food. Considering the nutritional content of these instant foods, would one actually accept it as food? By definition, food is, “any nutritious substance that people eat or drink in order to maintain life and growth.” When we look at a recipe for cup noodles, would we find a chemical formula rather than a list of ingredients? (source)